21st Century Learning Matrix Reflective Questions- Support Document

Think about your classroom practice and answer the following questions.
Progress to the next level when you answer Yes. If you answer No, go back one level and place yourself on that part of the continuum.
Ways of Thinking

Ways for Working

Ways of Living

Tool for
Working

Problem Solving

Critical thinking

Creativity

Self Regulation

Collaboration

Are students required to do more

than remember information/
procedure presented?

Are students required to do

more than remember,
understand and reproduce
content at a superficial level?

Is the learning task more

than just set by teacher
and completed as
outlined by teacher?

Are students required to

do more than remember
and understand teacher
driven task with no
reflection on learning?

Do students work in
groups and share
information?

Are students required to solve a

given problem?

Are students required to

respond to ideas using existing
knowledge and/or experience?

Is the learning task and

mode of response
having a limited level of
creativity?

Are students required to

remember and understand
with some student
direction with no
reflection on learning?

Do students work
together collaborating
informally?

Are students required to identify

and solve a problem in their own
way to arrive at a solution?

Are students required to

interpret information using
existing knowledge and other
limited sources of information?

Does the learning task,

require students to
create a refinement of a
known product?

Do students develop
own ideas and or
points of view with
some sharing?

Are students required to develop

solutions to complex problems,
develop methods of solution,
solve the problem and reflect on
method use and evaluate
results?

Are students required to

interpret, analyse and evaluate
information using a range of
sources to determine
relevance/irrelevance to
develop a point of view?

Does the learning task

require students to be
inventive?

Are students required to develop

and explore own problem based
on identified issue, develop
solutions to the problem, make
steps toward solving the problem
and reflect on method use and
evaluate results and
reasonableness?

Are students required to

analyse, evauate and
synthesise information from a
variety of sources to develop a
deep knowledge for basis of a
personal opinion/reasoned
judgment?

Is the learning task

student driven with
student chosen
presentation with
unique ideas?

Are students required to

apply understanding and
analyse information with
limited student direction
with limited reflection on
learning?
Are students required to
analyse and evaluate a
mostly student directed
plan/idea or product
(minor restrictions) with a
given success criteria and
students required to
reflect on learning?
Are students required to
investigate personal/social
problems to create a
diverse range of solutions
with reflection and
evaluation of their
learning?

Kiri Smith, Melinda Shipley, Stuart Keast, Danica Yates, Michelle Hartley

Do students share
responsibility for the
creation of a plan/
idea or product?

Do students network
locally and remotely
with peers and
experts to design,
implement and
develop a plan/idea or
product?

Communication-

Global Citizens

Can/do students in
your class
communicate
effectively with
each other around
the topic?
Do students in your
class express basic
information around
a topic on a regular
basis?

Does your teaching take into

account community needs?

Do you use ICT in

your classroom?

Do students in your room

show and some interest
and/or engage in discussion
and learning about
community based and social
issues?
Do students discuss and plan
actions in relation to
community and social
issues?

Do you use ICT as

more than just a
replacement of pen
and paper? Eg book
work, sound cards

Do students create plans

volunteer or take action on
community based or social
issues?

Does using ICT allow

you to change your
practice, the way you
teach and what
students produce?

Do students make ongoing

commitments to social or
community based issues?

Are you designing

and creating tasks
that would not be
possible without the
use of ICT?

Do students clearly
communicate
relevant and
purposeful
information to an
audience?
Do students
effectively
communicate using
more than one
medium to express
information to a
particular audience?
Do students
skillfully delivery
flexibility content in
a variety of
mediums to engage
an audience?

ICT

Is ICT used as a
substitute for pen a
paper with some
value added?

Executive Initiative, 2014